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I’ll I Crown Point. seleccompPAYSTO CHICAGOhy■e-olckm-u-e*dby\s-iis a clPromises Chicago Judge He Will Question CouplesMore Closelyithn£tishohenl ’ scribed Ewata as a tall, thin man.anger.•e-deir~rdhe)r-lb,edashechMAN IS FATHERAT 116 YEARSpriseprorrAsdistrlog-steeltry,andprovtionj; noun 000 Port Steel here for iW;momCHICAGO, Feb. 1. — Howard H. have Kemp, the marrying justice of abou Crown Point, Ind., yesterday paid belie his long deferred visit to Superior £0r Judge Sabath. The justice came to J5rod testify in the annulment sought by Mrs. Ruth Briganza Ewata, who star( married Ben Ewata, Chinese restau- QrsiVt rant owner, last July, before secur- ting a divorce from her first hus-band- petitShe charged that the ceremony inj}ewas performed while she was in adrunken stupor after a tour ofcabarets and roadhouses which shewas forced to make when Ewatathreatened to discharge her from his employ unless she went with him. Justice Kemp said that he remem-1 ber'ed the marriage well. He de-shappres«1,400tion.Mrs. Ewata said that Ewata is very short in stature. Justice Kemp said that fie could smell no ^Liquor on her breath at the time. Judge Sabath continued the case until next Tuesday.With this order Judge Sabath invited the justice to sit on the bench with him. The jutsice has married 40,000 couples and the judge has signed almost the same number of divorce decrees. After sitting on the bench for three hours, Justice Kemp said that since he had seen the other end of marriages he would question couples who came before him more closely and refuse to wed ^re's those applicants who had not given due consideration to the seriousness of the step.B1P.)-Motc of it will it wtheTh Brot ci uar for of AIrnsec-nbesic
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Hammond Whiting Evening Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1930
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